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Recent methods for conditional image generation benefit from dense supervision such as segmentation label maps to achieve high-fidelity. However, it is rarely explored to employ dense supervision for unconditional image generation. Here we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-28 Gayoung Lee , Hyunsu Kim , Junho Kim , Seonghyeon Kim , Jung-Woo Ha , Yunjey Choi

Current generative frameworks use end-to-end learning and generate images by sampling from uniform noise distribution. However, these approaches ignore the most basic principle of image formation: images are product of: (a) Structure: the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-07-27 Xiaolong Wang , Abhinav Gupta

The generative adversarial network (GAN) is successfully applied to study the perceptual single image superresolution (SISR). However, the GAN often tends to generate images with high frequency details being inconsistent with the real ones.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-12-28 Ziyang Liu , Zhengguo Li , Xingming Wu , Zhong Liu , Weihai Chen

Current text conditioned image generation methods output realistic looking images, but they fail to capture specific styles. Simply finetuning them on the target style datasets still struggles to grasp the style features. In this work, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Serkan Ozturk , Samet Hicsonmez , Pinar Duygulu

Deep generative models like StyleGAN hold the promise of semantic image editing: modifying images by their content, rather than their pixel values. Unfortunately, working with arbitrary images requires inverting the StyleGAN generator,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-16 Yohan Poirier-Ginter , Alexandre Lessard , Ryan Smith , Jean-François Lalonde

Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) have been shown to produce realistically looking synthetic images with remarkable success, yet their performance seems less impressive when the training set is highly diverse. In order to provide a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-08-31 Matan Ben-Yosef , Daphna Weinshall

Deep learning has brought an unprecedented progress in computer vision and significant advances have been made in predicting subjective properties inherent to visual data (e.g., memorability, aesthetic quality, evoked emotions, etc.).…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-12-04 Aliaksandr Siarohin , Gloria Zen , Nicu Sebe , Elisa Ricci

We introduce a novel generative autoencoder network model that learns to encode and reconstruct images with high quality and resolution, and supports smooth random sampling from the latent space of the encoder. Generative adversarial…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-10-10 Ari Heljakka , Arno Solin , Juho Kannala

The generation of high-quality images has become widely accessible and is a rapidly evolving process. As a result, anyone can generate images that are indistinguishable from real ones. This leads to a wide range of applications, including…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-12 Sergey Sinitsa , Ohad Fried

Computational imaging is increasingly vital for a broad spectrum of applications, ranging from biological to material sciences. This includes applications where the object is known and sufficiently sparse, allowing it to be described with a…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-17 Jacob Seifert , Yifeng Shao , Allard P. Mosk

An effective perception system is a fundamental component for farming robots, as it enables them to properly perceive the surrounding environment and to carry out targeted operations. The most recent methods make use of state-of-the-art…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-07 Mulham Fawakherji , Ciro Potena , Alberto Pretto , Domenico D. Bloisi , Daniele Nardi

Although Generative Adversarial Network (GAN) can be used to generate the realistic image, improper use of these technologies brings hidden concerns. For example, GAN can be used to generate a tampered video for specific people and…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2018-10-19 Chih-Chung Hsu , Chia-Yen Lee , Yi-Xiu Zhuang

In recent years, Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) have shown substantial progress in modeling complex distributions of data. These networks have received tremendous attention since they can generate implicit probabilistic models that…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-10-25 Mehdi Ahmadi , Timothy Nest , Mostafa Abdelnaim , Thanh-Dung Le

Intrinsic Image Decomposition (IID) is a challenging inverse problem that seeks to decompose a natural image into its underlying intrinsic components such as albedo and shading. While recent image decomposition methods rely on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-13 Viraj Shah , Svetlana Lazebnik , Julien Philip

One of the most challenging aspects of medical image analysis is the lack of a high quantity of annotated data. This makes it difficult for deep learning algorithms to perform well due to a lack of variations in the input space. While…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-13 Soumyajyoti Dey , Soham Das , Swarnendu Ghosh , Shyamali Mitra , Sukanta Chakrabarty , Nibaran Das

Deep learning techniques have been successfully applied in many areas of computer vision, including low-level image restoration problems. For image super-resolution, several models based on deep neural networks have been recently proposed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-10-16 Zhaowen Wang , Ding Liu , Jianchao Yang , Wei Han , Thomas Huang

Remarkable progress has been achieved in synthesizing photo-realistic images with generative adversarial networks (GANs). Recently, GANs are utilized as the training sample generator when obtaining or storing real training data is expensive…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-22 Bo Zhao , Hakan Bilen

As synthetic imagery is used more frequently in training deep models, it is important to understand how different synthesis techniques impact the performance of such models. In this work, we perform a thorough evaluation of the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-05 Kristofer Schlachter , Connor DeFanti , Sebastian Herscher , Ken Perlin , Jonathan Tompson

The recent computer graphics developments have upraised the quality of the generated digital content, astonishing the most skeptical viewer. Games and movies have taken advantage of this fact but, at the same time, these advances have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-11-29 Edmar R. S. de Rezende , Guilherme C. S. Ruppert , Antonio Theophilo , Tiago Carvalho

Face synthesis has been a fascinating yet challenging problem in computer vision and machine learning. Its main research effort is to design algorithms to generate photo-realistic face images via given semantic domain. It has been a crucial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-06-16 Zhihe Lu , Zhihang Li , Jie Cao , Ran He , Zhenan Sun